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# Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible
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## ARIA is a UK R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.

Society’s most important advances have stemmed from those willing to think differently about what might be possible.

The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) empowers scientists and engineers, from our Programme Directors to the teams we fund, with the resources and freedom to pursue breakthroughs at the edge of the possible.

Many will fail to meet their target, but their efforts will inspire the next generation. Those that do succeed will generate massive social and economic returns.

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02 September 2025

## Engineering Ecosystem Resilience

Apply for discovery funding to shape a future programme

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28 August 2025

## Perpetual Flight

Read our latest programme thesis and share your feedback

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21 August 2025

## Sustained Viral Resilience

Read the programme thesis and share your thoughts

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19 August 2025

## Robot Dexterity TA3: Expert Committee

Read the survey report and recommendations

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19 August 2025

## New funded projects in Safeguarded AI

Explore the projects we're funding in TA1.2 + TA1.3

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## Opportunity spaces

Defined by our Programme Directors, ARIA opportunity spaces are highly consequential for society; under-explored relative to their potential impact; and ripe for new talent, perspectives, or resources to change what’s possible. Each opportunity space represents fertile ground we'll harvest for technical breakthroughs through programme and seed funding.

Discover our opportunity spaces below:

- Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
- Manufacturing Abundance
- Trust Everything, Everywhere
- Sculpting Innate Immunity
- Bioenergetic Engineering
- Scoping Our Planet
- Scalable Neural Interfaces
- Programmable Plants
- Mathematics for Safe AI
- Smarter Robot Bodies
- Nature Computes Better
- Future Proofing Our Climate and Weather

### Engineering Ecosystem Resilience

Living organisms underpin our food, climate stability, and materials – ecological collapse threatens the foundations of civilisation. By pairing advanced monitoring with resilience-boosting interventions, we could halt biodiversity loss and enable people and nature to thrive.

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## Explore our emerging areas

Our second cohort of Programme Directors has joined ARIA with initial ideas to explore. They'll now embark on a collaborative and intensive discovery process to define our next set of opportunity spaces.

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Open calls

## Engineering Ecosystem Resilience: Pre-programme discovery

The Engineering Ecosystem Resilience opportunity space asks whether pairing advanced monitoring with resilience-boosting interventions could halt biodiversity loss and enable people and nature to thrive. We’re now looking to fund a number of short research projects to help guide the development of an ambitious research programme within this space.

Learn more about this funding call

Opportunity space

**Engineering Ecosystem Resilience**

Programme Director

**Yannick Wurm**

Application Date

**18 September 2025**

Programme Funding

## Safeguarded AI TA2: Machine Learning

The Safeguarded AI programme is offering an £18 million grant to catalyse the creation of a new UK-based non-profit entity to develop crucial machine learning (ML) components for a secure AI production facility. We're seeking exceptional teams committed to both cutting-edge ML research and future-proof organisational governance and security.

Learn more about this funding call

Opportunity space

**Mathematics for Safe AI**

Programme

**Safeguarded AI**

Programme Director

**David 'davidad' Dalrymple**

Application Date

**01 October 2025**

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